What sort of things did the occupational therapist get for you?
Well the shower was the major item because I couldn't get in or out of the bath here, there was no grab rails or anything else. I did try but I got stuck twice, and it was really hard getting out of there, and I used to, obviously I had the car then, and I used to go to me sister's, possibly fortnightly, and have a good bath there because she had, well she had like a shower attachment, and also a big pole that I could use to get, you know, pull me self in and out like, you know, and just to know there was somebody there an all because I was scared of getting stuck.
So that was, that was great when the shower finally was fitted. But the other great thing has been that chair there, mind this has been a godsend, but the chair there its just so, its amazing, my back could be going mad and I just use the chair to sit down and do the washing up, or whatever.
And I don't know whether its because the way the angle of the seat or just how it is but, me back kind of really seems to ease, and I don't know, and I just seem to be in that position and its just oh, like heaven, and I keep... that's what I turn, the position I try to get when I'm out walking, when I like rest against the walls, what I was telling you about, its, I found that that's where I get a bit of comfort, and I try to replicate, replicate it when I'm out walking and things like that. |
